[1430] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Related to the aha1542 bios and LILO error
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Van Eps)
Sun Feb 16 21:36:29 1997
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 20:26:53 -0600 (CST)
From: Nathan Van Eps <vane0026@itlabs.umn.edu>
Reply-To: Nathan Van Eps <vane0026@itlabs.umn.edu>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <5e5nb8$cbq@glitnir.ifi.uio.no>
Hello,
I have adaptec 2940 and a Western Digital 2gig (enterprise) SCSi drive.
I installed Linux on the Scsi drive and win95 on one of my 2 ide drives.
I have tried to get my computer to boot the win95 partition through lilo,
but it won't recognize it. It sounds like a very similar problem to the
one below. The win95 partition is in my lilo.config, but when I boot,
the only choice is my linux partition. I have mounted and can use the
win95 partition once linux is loaded.
Note: I installed linux before I put the win95 partition on my ide drive.
I am pretty sure lilo is in the MBR of my SCSI drive. I think the
problem lies within the Adaptec BIOS, which I have enabled (in order to
boot immediately off the SCSI). I say this because I had to unplug my
ide hard drives to get linux to install to the SCSI properly.
Another Note: I have a Microid Bios which allows me to boot to the SCSI
first.
Another Note Again: I know I could just install linux to my ide drives,
but I want the speed of the SCSI drive!
If anybody has any ideas for me to try, please send it out.
Thanks in advance,
Nathan Van Eps-------vane0026@itlabs.umn.edu
On 16 Feb 1997, zEspEn wrote:
>
> If the bios on my adaptec aha1542 scsi controller is enabled,
> LILO will not give me any options which OS to boot to.
> It boots to the first OS in the LILO config.
>
> This happens even though i have tried both the mbr and the
> bootsector on my liux partition.
>
> Please help me, i hate using loadlin (Or even worse, bootdisks,)
>
>
> -eF
>
